Agency warns consumers with anti-scam drive

CONSUMERS could be an April Fool all year round and not just tomorrow if they don’t steer clear of Ireland’s top 10 scams.

The new National Consumer Agency (NCA) has compiled the table for an anti-scams campaign starting tomorrow, April Fool’s Day.

This week at an international anti-scams conference in Dublin the NCA reckoned Irish consumers were last year cheated of €350 million through fraud and deceptions. The NCA is urging consumers to wise up to fraud through the post, on the phone, by email or from strangers in the street.